£94 to fix a loo, does this sound right??

[southeastastra]

i'm so mad, he only replaced a tiny part not even the whole syphon (or however you spell it). £28 for parts?? spitting mad, he was only here half an hour.

Plumbers are always a rip off. What a pain.

If it makes you feel any better we paid £198 for some fool to take out the u bend on our sink, replace it and put it back again.

He managed to stretch it out to I hour 8 minutes, so you pay in full for the second hour.

Bloody helll my new bathroom suit cost less than £300!

You probably could have bought a whole cistern for £30 and fitted it yourself - but you obviopusly need the confidence to do that.

If it was £28 for parts...I guess that leaves £66 for 30 mins labour....£132 per hour. I don't think £66 is totally unexpected (note I didn't say unreasonable!) for an hours labour. Maybe he charges for a minimum of 1hr?

I would be tempted to call trading standards and get advice. I know someone that git charged hideously for retiling and trading standards were able to pull their weight and get the bill reduced - but they hadn't actually paid when they took advice - so it was easier to pay the right amount than it may be for trying to get back what you have already paid.

i can understand the call out charge it's the parts bit that is making me mad! i googled it and could buy a complete thing for a fiver. and he only replaced a tiny bit of it anyway.

i called them but office isn't open until monday grr.

maybe i will try trading standards. it's a rip off.

we had to have a plumber come out on a Sunday to replace our loo cos it broke

the new loo cost £170, the labour was £90 a half hour (emergency rate I think), luckily we got the cost of the labour back from insurance but I was ed how much it was

am now thinking it would have been cheaper to relace the whole loo! grr still mad

quick bump, cause not sure if i should cause a fuss about this. (but probably will anyway)

usually people charge a min of 1 hour for the call out - I'd expect that to cost me £100 straight off, more at the weekend

If that was on a saturday then you probably dont have much cause for complaint on the labour. £28 does sound like a lot for parts though. You can get a siphon for around £5.

was last tuesday morning, not a weekend. and it's the £28 that's bugging me! i googled siphons too and they were £5 more or less. though he didn't even replace that, just a small plastic thing on the bottom.